A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers’ house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. And then a secret is revealed and suddenly, she realizes how fragile her idyll is. Winner of the Davy Byrnes Memorial Prize, Foster i...(展开全部)

An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not k...(展开全部)

In intimate and eloquent interviews, including the last he gave before his suicide, the writer hailed by A.O. Scott of The New York Times as “the best mind of his generation” considers the state of modern America, entertainment and discipline, adulthood, literature, and his own inimitable writing style. The volume includes among others interviews with Laura Miller, Dave Eggers,...(展开全部)

沒有大眾心理學的雜耍技倆，也沒有令人沮喪的學習障礙，廣告大師傑克．福斯特（Jack Foster）的創意奇想法是一套清晰完整、平易近人的方法學。的確，創意無色無味，但卻有跡可尋。福斯特堅信，每一個人都有激發創意的潛能。透過他建構的創意理論，你可以完全自我放鬆，讓內在的創造力在瞬間爆發出來。不僅創意人必讀，更是企畫行銷人不容錯過的案頭自修書。

沒有大眾心理學的雜耍技倆，也沒有令人沮喪的學習障礙，廣告大師傑克．福斯特（Jack Foster）的創意奇想法是一套清晰完整、平易近人的方法學。的確，創意無色無味，但卻有跡可尋。福斯特堅信，每一個人都有激發創意的潛能。透過他建構的創意理論，你可以完全自我放鬆，讓內在的創造力在瞬間爆發出來。不僅創意人必讀，更是企畫行銷人不容錯過的案頭自修書。

An instant classic of American sportswriting—the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, “the best mind of his generation” (A. O. Scott) and “the best tennis-writer of all time” (New York Times) Gathered for the first time in a deluxe collector's edition, here are David Foster Wallace's legendary writings on tennis, five tour-de-force pieces written with a competitor's insight ...(展开全部)

Set in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need traces the movement of three Chinese foster children, Dengrong, Pei Pei, and Meili, from the state orphanage into the humble, foster homes of Auntie Li, Auntie Ma, and Auntie Huang. Traversing the geography of Guangxi, from the modern capital Nanning where Pei Pei and ...(展开全部)

Set in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need traces the movement of three Chinese foster children, Dengrong, Pei Pei, and Meili, from the state orphanage into the humble, foster homes of Auntie Li, Auntie Ma, and Auntie Huang. Traversing the geography of Guangxi, from the modern capital Nanning where Pei Pei and ...(展开全部)

If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves.To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself.And I think it...(展开全部)

If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves.To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself.And I think it...(展开全部)